Letter: Not the time?

  • Posted June 3, 2006 at midnight

Editor, Daily News:

Columnist Brent Batten says Memorial Day is not the time to say our Iraq war has failed.

It turns out that it's never time to criticize the lies, crimes and incredible blunders that have plunged us into this needless, pointless, heartless, brainless war.

Batten isn't shocked by the conversion of this day for solemn remembrance into a "shopping sell-a-bration."

After all, elsewhere in the paper we were asked to interrupt our shopping for a moment at 3 p.m. on that day to remember the war dead.

Too many Americans spend Memorial Day and Veterans Day not honoring the victims of the war disease, but honoring the disease itself.

Dan Lyons , Fort Collins, Colo.

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